Luis Gutiérrez Soto

The recorded working language is Spanish. Works named in the authority record are Cine Barceló, Cine Callao, Cinema Europa, Torre del Retiro, Viviendas para D. Ignacio Fernández Palacios, Madrid and Viviendas para la Constructora Pedreña, Madrid. Distinctions recorded are Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit.

• Name — Luis Gutiérrez Soto • Born — 1900 • Birthplace — Calle de Villanueva, Madrid, Spain • Died — 1977 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain • Resting Place — Mingorrubio Cemetery, El Pardo, Spain • Occupation — Architect

Born on 6 June 1900 in the Calle de Villanueva, Madrid, Spain. After earning a degree in 1923, he became Chief Architect of the Ministry of Public Instruction, delivering a profuse number of projects of schools until 1929. His first noted project was the Cine Callao (1926). Once a follower of the rationalist architectural style, he reinvented himself during the Francoist dictatorship (1939–1975), adapting to the traditionalist aesthetics promoted by the regime, and became a representative of the neo-herrerian francoist style. He died in Madrid on 4 February 1977. He was buried in the Mingorrubio Cemetery in El Pardo. With a period of activity spanning along six decades, he delivered over 650 projects, most of them in Madrid.

Works recorded as notable number 8: Cine Barceló, Cine Callao, Cinema Europa, Torre del Retiro, Viviendas para D. Ignacio Fernández Palacios, Madrid, Viviendas para la Constructora Pedreña, Madrid, Viviendas para CISA, Madrid and Fnac Callao.

Luis Gutiérrez Soto is recorded as having received Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit.